FreeBSD Developer Summit: ATF

Thursday, May 13, 2013 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Overview

The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) package is a collection of libraries to simplify the creation of test programs in a variety of languages. With FreeBSD growing more architectures, platforms, features and interfaces, it's increasingly more difficult to not break something, somewhere. Having unit tests is a good way of managing the quality of the source code and ATF is perceived to be a good infrastructure to use.

Goals

Establish consensus or relay information about the following list of topics so that real progress can be made and more people can get involved.

Topics

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Topic Description

1

Where to place unit tests in the source tree

2

Where and how to install unit tests

3

What tests have been ported from NetBSD already

4

What's a priority list of tests we like to have

5

How to automate running tests

6

Whether to make it part of tinderbox

7

Any additional topics that have been brought up

Attending

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